Improvement in bottle-stoppers



M. J. HINDEN'.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

Patented April 11, 1876.

UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFICE.

MATTHIAS J. HINDEN, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND MATIHIAS KERSHT, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLE-STOPPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 175,981, dated April 11, 1876; application filed September 16, 1875.

' improvement in a bottlestopper of that class which is permanently secured to the neck of the bottle by a swinging bail, whose ends are pivoted to a ring on the neck of the bottle and it consists in a novel and peculiar stopper-plate and cam-ring, in combination with the bail, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my stopper as applied to a bottle, showing the latter corked by it. Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the bottle open. Fig. 3 is a detached perspective View of the stopper plate and camring. Fig. 4 is a cross-section of the same.

In the drawing, A represents the neck of a bottle or jug, having the usual ball or ringa molded on it just below the mouth. Bis a metal ring, preferably halved or made in two parts, and provided with two trunnion-studs, b, on which are sleeved the ends of a metal bail, O. D is a stopper-plate, having a pendant flange to slip over the mouth of the bottle. To the lower side of the stopper-plate is secured an elastic disk, 0, of rubber, cork, or other suitable material, by forcing it into the flange.

From the center of the plate D rises a stud, d, which extends up through an opening in the center of the bail. On each side of the plate D there is a guide-yoke, e, which partially emstud at above the ring-plate to keep the latter in position, and to enable the operator to lift the stopper-plate with it high enough to have its flange clear the neck of the bottle, the low end of each segment-cam being cut down to the plane of the ring-plate to allow of such movement.

When the stopper-plate is seated on the bottle-mouth it is forcibly compressed thereon by turning the ring-plate to the right, which will bring the cam-segments against the bail. A reverse movement releases the pressure, when the stopper-plate may be lifted from the mouth of the bottle, and the whole device swung to one side.

What I claim as my invention is- The combination of the stopper-plate D, provided with the disk a, stud d, and guide-yokes e, and the plate E, provided with the cam-segments f, with the bail O, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

H. F. EBER'rs, H. S. SPRAGUE. 

